"bashaw" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /bəˈʃɔː/ Forms: bashaws [plural]
Rhymes: -ɔː Etymology: Variant of pasha, several forms or relatives of which start with /b-/, e.g. Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā). Etymology templates: {{m+|ar|بَاشَا}} Arabic بَاشَا (bāšā) Head templates: {{en-noun}} bashaw (plural bashaws)
  1. (now rare, historical) A pasha. Tags: archaic, historical
    Sense id: en-bashaw-en-noun-Q6oGJ3Ki
  2. (archaic, often derogatory, by extension) A grandee. Tags: archaic, broadly, derogatory, often
    Sense id: en-bashaw-en-noun-gcN5FMVb
  3. A very large siluroid fish (Pylodictis olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; the goujon or mudcat. Categories (lifeform): Catfish
    Sense id: en-bashaw-en-noun-fLxfKeKF Disambiguation of Catfish: 2 9 90 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 8 88 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 4 4 91 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 3 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: bassa [16th–18th c.], bassaw [obsolete] Derived forms: bashawism, bashawship

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:",
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          "ref": "1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 44:",
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          "ref": "1809, James Grey Jackson, An Account of the Empire of Marocco, London, page 79:",
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